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Presentation on theme: "No ethical challenge facing the churches today is more radical than the homosexual or gay debate. ~ John Stott."— Presentation transcript:

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No ethical challenge facing the churches today is more radical than the homosexual or gay debate. ~ John Stott

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"A very good case can be made out that the homosexual is the modern equivalent of the leper." ~ Pierre Berton

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I cant explain why the comfort I find in a gay mans arms is greater than I could find in those of a heterosexual woman. Its not an act of sex. Its an act of love. ~ Mel Write, Former pastor, evangelical Christian, after leaving his wife and children to become more sexually authentic

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In Gods view I suspect we are all sexual deviants. I doubt if there is anyone who has not had a lustful thought that deviated from Gods perfect ideal of sexuality. ~ Dr. Merville Vincent, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

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For homosexual men and women, permanent relationships characterized by love can be an appropriate and Christian way of expressing their sexuality. ~ Methodist Church Report

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"It's NOT OK to be gay. It will damn the soul, destroy the life, and doom any nation that tolerates such evil. ~ Pastor Fred Phelps, Westborough Baptist Church

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One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness, for surely it is the quality of the relationship that matters. ~ A Quaker report on human sexuality

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While we do not believe homosexual are responsible for their orientation, they must decide before God how they will respond and behave. ~ Judith K. Balswick

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I do not deny the claim that homosexual relationships can be loving. But their love-quality is not sufficient to justify them. Indeed, I have to add that they are incompatible with true love because they are incompatible with Gods law. Love is concerned for the highest welfare of the beloved. And our highest human welfare is found in obedience to Gods law and purpose, not in revolt against them. ~ John Stott

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We cannot directly transfer biblical world views and understandings to situations today. Our church acknowledges that as a whole body we are unclear about Gods intentions regarding homosexuality. ~ Yvonne Steward, The United Church Observer Magazine

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As stereotypical as it sounds, I now know it to be true of me as it is for many men – I had mistakenly equated love with sex and sex with love. Subconsciously, I hoped that the love disappearing from my marriage and the male bonding I was missing could be replaced through sexuallized love with men. How very wrong I was. ~ Richard Smith, former homosexual sex participant

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Just as we may not discriminate between persons on account of their gender, colour, ethnicity, or class, so we may not discriminate between persons on account of their sexual preference. For the God of the Bible is the God of justice. ~ Desmond Tutu

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A homosexual partnership is essentially incompatible with marriage as the God-ordained context for one- flesh intimacy. ~ John Stott

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Contrary to societys thinking, sexual expression is not essential to human fulfilment as the example of Jesus Christ and countless faithful Christians have shown. ~ Position Paper on Homosexuality, Little Trinity Anglican Church, Toronto

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True gay liberation (like all authentic liberation) is not freedom from Gods revealed purpose in order to construct our own morality; it is rather freedom from our self-willed rebellion in order to love and obey him. ~ John Stott

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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. ~ Romans 3:23-24 (NASB)

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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus. ~ Romans 3:23-24 (NASB)

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Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. ~ Psalm 51:5 (NIV)

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This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. ~ 1 John 5:2 (TNIV)

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"Those who would come after me, he must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their lives will lose them, but those who lose their lives for me will find them. What good will it be for you to gain the whole world, yet forfeit your soul?" ~ Matthew 16:24-26 (NIVi)

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I appeal to you, therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship. Do not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. ~ Romans 12:1-2 (NRSV)

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Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 3:13-14 (TNIV)

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Those who become Christians become new persons. They are not the same anymore, for the old life is gone. A new life has begun! ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)

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Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 3:13-14 (TNIV)

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"If any brother or sister sins, rebuke the offender; and if they repent, forgive him. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, `I repent,' forgive them. ~ Luke 17:3-4 (TNIV)

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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone elses eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say, `Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from the other persons eye. ~ Matthew 7:3-5 (TNIV)

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Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little. ~ Luke 7:47 (TNIV)

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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ~ Romans 8:1 (TNIV)

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If any of you want to be my followers, you must forget about yourself. You must take up your cross each day and follow me. If you want to save your life, you will destroy it. But if you give up your life for me, you will save it. ~ Luke 9:23-24 (CEV)